ABSTRACT
At almost exactly the same moment as the first edition of this book was published, Richard Walker composed a “requiem for corporate geography” (Walker 1989). In the event, it was very much a single performance composition. Although some notes certainly rang true, others made much less sense: the ‘requiem’ was a flawed work (Dicken and Thrift 1992). Indeed, far from witnessing the demise of ‘corporate geography’, significant research has continued to explore the complex actions of corporate enterprises and their intricate, everchanging organizational and geographical architectures, as the contributions to this volume, and others, testify. At the same time, as Taylor and Asheim (2001) and the editors of this volume point out in Chapter 1, there continues to be significant diversity in how this research is conceptualized and empirically conducted. In this brief concluding chapter, I want to reflect on the specific approach that has formed the basis of my own research with colleagues, in the past couple of decades.
